The seven-foot-tall sound system features four conical horns arranged vertically backed by two rear-loaded subwoofer horns and a 21" woofer powered by its own solid-state amplifier. Its waxed wooden cones and high-frequency aluminum alloy speakers cover every sound from 100hz to 20khz ... aka the entire human audible spectrum. They’re made in Pennsylvania, sold in Brooklyn and come in hand-rubbed black walnut, cherry, or ash.

To make the Imperias, Oswaldsmill founder Jonathan Weiss enlisted the help of industrial designer David D'Imperio to ensure that the systems would be the visual opposites of the more pedestrian speaker designs he felt were currently available.

And he wanted them to be big. “When people go to Steinway, they don’t say, ‘I’d like one of your grand pianos, but do you have a really small grand piano?’” says Weiss.